Hur tänker Frida Söderlund här?

Ja det blir lite fel.

Det är som det vanliga mantrat efter varje attentat: "terroristerna vill att vi ska vara rädda, därför måste vi fortsätta leva som vanligt!"

Vilket bullshit! Terroristerna vill inte att vi ska vara rädda, de vill döda oss!

Nej de enda som inte vill att vi ska vara rädda är marknaden. För Gud hjälpe oss om tillväxten avstannar.

I wanted to vomit. Crouching at the end of my bed, I wanted to be physically sick, knowing what this would mean for today.

It would mean the eunuch politicians peddling their narrative that we will carry on as normal, that we stand united. Trying to find some hope to hang on to.

It would mean Andy Burnham, the new mayor of Greater Manchester, right there to tell us it would be business as usual in Manchester.

And we will have a full day of this, this standard response to terror. A narrative so drilled into the minds of the terrified that they cling on to it for fear of drowning in the horror. Like a bit of flotsam in the sea long after the boat has sunk, and all you feel is numb.

'We stand united. We are not broken. We are strong.'

'We stand united. We are not broken. We are strong.'

Repeated like a mantra.

The new Lord's Prayer of a terrorised generation.

Saying it over and over, faster and faster as the sharks circle and it becomes clear that hope is fading fast. That this could be the end. If not this time, then the next one. Or the one after that.

Celebrating my birthday in Manchester as news of the Manchester Arena bomb broke. The anger is monumental.

For what reason will this ever stop?

Theresa May says such attacks "will not break us", but her own life is lived in a bullet-proof bubble, and she evidently does not need to identify any young people today in Manchester morgues. Also, "will not break us" means that the tragedy will not break her, or her policies on immigration. The young people of Manchester are already broken - thanks all the same, Theresa. Sadiq Khan says "London is united with Manchester", but he does not condemn Islamic State - who have claimed responsibility for the bomb. The Queen receives absurd praise for her 'strong words' against the attack, yet she does not cancel today's garden party at Buckingham Palace - for which no criticism is allowed in the Britain of free press. Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says the attack is the work of an "extremist". An extreme what? An extreme rabbit?

In modern Britain everyone seems petrified to officially say what we all say in private. Politicians tell us they are unafraid, but they are never the victims. How easy to be unafraid when one is protected from the line of fire. The people have no such protections.

Morrissey
23 May 2017.